"hellhouse" meaning in All languages combined

See hellhouse on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: hellhouses [plural]
Etymology: hell + house Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hell|house}} hell + house Head templates: {{en-noun}} hellhouse (plural hellhouses)
  1. A house that was the scene of a horrific incident
    Sense id: en-hellhouse-en-noun-HOsPQVzL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49
  2. An entertainment, at a fair etc, in which visitors pay to be frightened by gruesome exhibits etc.
    Sense id: en-hellhouse-en-noun-ZnFSgUJu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: haunted house

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hellhouse meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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